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- 1 Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
"ripe grain"
- 2 Rife not-comparable, proscribed
"The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes."
- 3 Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
"ripe cheese"
- 4 Having attained its full development; mature; perfected. figuratively
"He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one."
- 5 Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge. archaic
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- 6 Ready for action or effect; prepared.
"while things were just ripe for a war"
- 7 Ofa person, ready, willing, eager. colloquial
"I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air!"
- 8 Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
"Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip."
- 9 Intoxicated. obsolete
"Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?"
- 10 Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
"Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe, however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties."
- 11 Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
"Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits."
- 1 far along in time wordnet
- 2 at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge wordnet
- 3 fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used wordnet
- 4 most suitable or right for a particular purpose wordnet
- 5 fully prepared or eager wordnet
- 1 A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).
- 1 A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
"When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas."
- 2 The bank of a river.
- 3 A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E). uncountable
- 1 To ripen or mature. intransitive
"[…] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […]"
- 2 To search; to rummage. obsolete, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.
From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.
From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.
From Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.
An alteration of rife.
Recorded as Ripe in 1086 (DB), from Old English rip, "edge or strip of land".
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